Hey, remember the first week of June, twenty years ago?
Man, did nothing exciting ever happen then, am I right?
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It is a good thing too. The whole world was experiencing just a little too much excitement at that time. The Berlin Wall was about to fall, a popular uprising was about to happen in Romania and then the whole Eastern Bloc would fall.
Whew! Waaay too much excitement. Good thing there was that one magical week, the first week of June, 1989, when nothing happened. Let’s remember that time of tranquility as we try and move forward into a new century of harmony and build on those principles of just getting along.
Didn’t Ayatollah Khomeni die this week back then? Or was there something else? I was working at a summer camp for disabled folk at the time and was cut off from all communications, so you’ll have to forgive my lack of remembrance. … (…(…(…(…))))
I just figured I’d preempt what is going to be a rough week-or-so for me as the closest thing here to an apologist for the PRC.
“No one was killed on Tiananmen on that date.”
“Yes, people were killed, but not on Tiananmen Square.”
“OK, so maybe some were killed, but they were singing the Internationale . . . clearly it was Communists who were killed by vile Imperialist subversives.”
“The cognitive dissonance inherent in my position is making my head explode.”
“Those photos are fake.”
“Given that China is a police state, how can there be so many ‘survivors’ of this ‘massacre’? The sheer number of ‘survivors’ argues against any radical action by the PLA.”
“Did I say ‘PLA’? Errrr, I meant PAPF. Yeah . . .”
